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Timber harvesting plans.

It became law on Sep 13, 2012.

CA SB 1541 · Senate Bill · 2011–2012

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Latest action
Sep 13, 2012

What it does

The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from those provisions of the act a person engaged in specified forest management activities, including, until January 1, 2013, the harvesting of trees, limited to those trees that eliminate the vertical continuity of vegetative fuels and the horizontal continuity of tree crowns, for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration, and intensity, fuel…

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This bill passed and is now law.

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    Sep 13, 2012

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